Revit crashes when placing views on sheets

[Rosie the Reviter]

I'm having an issue that is messing with a Revit file. When you go to place a view on a sheet in this project, you get a fatal error.. Schedules and legends go on sheets just fine, but when you try to place a live view it is a serious crash and burn.

The file is at 87 mg, and it happens to have a lot of dependent view, could this have something to do with my crashes?

Computer wise I'm win7, 64bit, all my specs are up to par, running SP2.

Has anybody had similar issues?

[Rosie the Reviter]

Some additional notes:

I upgrade the file to test in 2012, and the issue disappears. So that's good.

The file is also heavy on Imported CAD. (unfortunate, I know, but there is no other alternative, with the cad file being too large to explode and turn into a family, and too large to model.) However I tested the file with the CAD unloaded and removed, and the crashing issue didn't go away.

[cdatechguy]

Have you tried to recreate the view? Perhaps that view has become corrupted...

[Rosie the Reviter]

It's happening to all views, model or detail. The only time it doesn't crash is with legends, schedules, or when I try to drag a view onto a sheet that is already placed on a sheet somewhere else.

[patricks]

I know it's more cumbersome, but what if you use the View dialog to add a view to a sheet? It's under View > Sheet Composition > View

[Rosie the Reviter]

Patrick,

I actually tried both that way, and via right clicking on the sheet name in the Project Browser to Add View.. still a crash and burn. I wish I had more to give you but I really don't know where to start with this one. For now we've upgraded the file to 2012, and the problem has vanished... thank goodness we had that. Let's just hope that if it happens again, we don't have to wait for 2013 to come to resolve the problem.

[Steve_Stafford]

Did you attempt to open the file again using Audit? Did you try creating a new floor plan view from scratch and placing it on a sheet? If that view works, create a view template from it and apply it to the others. I've seen a "bad" view that won't display things or otherwise behave badly. Applying a template has worked and it hasn't other times. Worst case usually requires creating new views.

If you can spare the time you should create a support request so developers can see the file.

[Rosie the Reviter]

Steve,

Pure genius. I was able to open the original 2011 file in the audit mode, and I did a save as. The old file still crashes, and the new file that was opened just once in the Audit mode is back to it's normal functionality.

I have always used Audit for file upgrading, or when I am compressing large files, but I guess I did not know that the Audit mode was the random-crash solution too! Thanks for your input!!

[Steve_Stafford]

Well Audit isn't all that informative, it runs does something...maybe yes, maybe no...who knows. But if the file works now it must've done something?!? :)

[Omar.Mirza]

I had similar issues when it comes to inserting a view onto a sheet and having it crash right after. What I found that works for me, is to save the file right before you insert the view. Somehow it bypassed the crash. I'm not trying to say that this method is full proof, but somehow it's been working.

Omar Mirza
Architectural Assistant
UHM Student Housing Services